(Gen. 22:2, NKJV throughout.) The story continues: "So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood ...

The Biblical account of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac specifically mentions the donkey that accompanied them, reflecting the animal’s standard inclusion in significant journeys. During the Roman ...

Among Israel’s great patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — Isaac is something of a transitional figure. That doesn’t make him unimportant, but he is transitional. He’s important ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by On a program of New York premieres at the Joyce Theater, Abraham’s contribution stands out and so do his dancers. By Brian Seibert The baritone ...

What is prefigured in Isaac happens in Jesus. If you reject Abraham’s obedience ... while the green denotes hope. The obedient donkey (a relative of a future Palm Sunday one?) ...

But man’s ways are not God’s ways, who again promises that Abraham will continue through a child of his wife, Sarai, and that this boy (Isaac) will be the bearer of God’s covenant.

In the times of the Bible and in ancient Israel, a person’s name also included his father’s, e.g., “Isaac ben Abraham ... Sarai sitting on a donkey, and the younger man in blue ...

“Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you” (Genesis 22:5 ESV). Abraham was confident that Isaac would return with him, and he even assured his son ...

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Though Friedman later acknowledges that it was the Mizrachi’s founder, Rabbi Isaac’s pragmatic political ... most notably Abraham Kook and his son, Zvi Yehudah, who carried and spread his ...